No, we grow up and hopefully mature and move on, making our lives productive and positive instead of using past experiences as a crutch, blaming everything on our past.

i certainly think some are - deep-rooted from the days of us being babies even, how our needs were met and how we dealt with not having certain needs not met. I should think theyre subliminally affecting us all throughout our lives one way or another. I have to say no not all our problems were and are generated from childhood though.

By my understanding childhood is the foundation to your character and whatever happends in that stage will have "some" or "major" effect in your later adult life. For example someone who was raped when they were little could have problems with having sex with their partner because of that event.

Not all of them , but some of them are for sure .

that is a very good question. My daughter had a terrific childhood and was raised in the country, she had a horse, slumber parties, skating parties etc. She just had a different presonality and even as a kid I had heard comments to the affect of ~different. People are born with their own little personalities and things do happen in childhood that we consider baggage and take with us into adulthood, and some may play a factor in our choices. But I do not think all our problems stem from childhood. The choices we make are the ones we live with. Let's say if you make the choice to try drugs and you let it take over, then those things I dont think can be blamed on your childhood unless your parents did drugs and your environment was as such.

No, I don't think that.

No. Some of our problems are generated by adulthood!

no. i think at some point you have to face reality and take responsibility for your own actions and decisions. to a degree, we are shaped by our childhood, and i agree that different experiences develop different cognitive functions, but it has been proven that humans can rewire their brains if they truly want to change. you can't blame your parents for everything.

Sadly no, most of our problems are created by our own making as we make mistakes in life and unwilling to accept that we honestly know very little about life.

I do not. We create many problems by our choices as adults, having nothing to do with our earlier experiences. Now, of course, your DNA/genes are driving you in all cases..so to that extent the child in you is always there. But I think it is too easy to blame your parents or your upbringing or the hurts you suffered as a kid for what you choose to bring into your life as an adult and more importantly, how you choose to react to it. :)

Not all, but many. The "formative years" really are exactly that. In the first 10 years, most personalities are hard wired.It has to do with brain development.

Many are yes, I know for a fact I would be a totally different person if I could have changed some things in my life growing up.

No.

Not *all* but yes, many ...

(long answer) No. But then, anytime I see that word "all", I'm already leary when answering. Too absolute. So do I think "some" problems are generated from childhood? Yes. Are we permanently "stuck" because of those? No. Up to us as we mature to learn to recognize what our growing up was about .. deal with our issues .. come to know ourselves .. then make an active decision to either be "stuck" in any childhood problems or move along responsibly on our own. I know some adults who are MISSING their own adulthood because they are so busy looking BACK to childhood and all the reasons why they are scared or wounded and who's fault that was, to boot. But at some point, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years later .. who is really deciding to be bitter or wounded or "me focused" .. and who might not instead be CHOOSING to live .. now .. making mistakes, but learning .. trying .,. striving .. LIVING ... even loving. NOne of that is possible if you're still looking backwards. Additionally, I'll go on and say that other problems any of us might have come along LATER in life. In fact, if we live and are open to experience, we will by definition feel both pain and joy .. run into problems and crises .. and even muddle our way OUT of them. We learn, But in all, we have to be OPEN. So guess I'm full circle back to the beginning. While acknowledging that there's a full range of possibilities in life .. for good or ill .. I believe we ever have choice and possibilities. We are not "stuck" unless we choose to be. May need help. May take effort. But rich rewards and potential possible. (Sorry I got so long winded!! Just feel strongly that we don't have to be in freeze-frame mode and do indeed have choice in this world.) :)

Not at all.